The Philosophy of History
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A Cambridge University Video presentation:
Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang, Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science.
This lecture was part of the Departmental Seminars in History and Philosophy of Science series and took place on 11 October 2012.
12 hours of fully resourced Philosophy lessons and an assessment offering an introduction to Philosophy for KS3/4. All lessons include a 1 or 2 hour PowerPoint, clips, worksheets and are differentiated fully to three or four levels.
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These engaging and colourful learning mats are indented for independent study or revision for the topic of Philosophy of Religion, as part of the OCR AS/A Level specification, although it can be applied across specifications. Each learning mat is downloaded as an A3 Word document and an A4 PDF, for compatibility.
Topics include:
Ancient Philosophical Influences
Soul, Mind and Body
Arguments from Observation
Arguments from Reason
Religious experience
Problem of Evil
Nature of God
Religious Language
20th Century Perspectives
Created with the OCR RS AS/A Level in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.
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Firstly, I’d like to say a HUGE thank you to the more than 1000 of you who have downloaded this display pack! I hope your classrooms look gorgeous!
This is a complete 200+ page pack of a number of classroom displays that I have developed over the last couple of years to invigorate my department. Two updated booster packs have already been added.
Original Display Pack:
- Philosophers and Religious Figures Timeline (Over 40 thinkers with pictures, dates and outlines of their thinking).
- Famous quote callouts to add along the timeline (one for almost every philosopher). Get students talking!
- Custom-made colourful lettering for timeline eras.
- Over 20 ethical and philosophical questions in colourful speech bubbles to inspire thinkers in your classroom (A great one for open-evenings or tutor time discussions!)
- Steps/Levels display with optional number arrows. Department levels policy documents included.
- ‘How to’ guides for all displays.
Booster Pack 1:
- Philosophical Language Literacy Display with sentence starters for knowledge/explanation and assessment/evaluation.
- Agree --> Disagree continuum signposts to make human bar charts in your classroom!
- Blooms thinking guidance for teachers with question prompts. Great for shrinking and sticking on desks or displaying at the back of the room.
Booster Pack 2:
- A raft of additional thinkers to give greater flexibility to the Philosopher Timeline across exam boards.
- Quotes for every new thinker of course!
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Lesson 8/8 on the Big Questions in Philosophy
Taught to 8-13 year olds, but delivery can be modified to suit a wider age range
Lesson 8: Conclusions
Lesson 1 Recap: Origins of Philosophy
Lesson 2 Recap: Practical Exercises in Philosophy
Lesson 3 Recap: How did life begin?
Lesson 4 Recap: Are we free?
Lesson 5 Recap: Do ghosts exist?
Lesson 6 Recap: Is any of this real?
-Lesson 7 Recap: How can we live a good life?
End of course quiz
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☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly
☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts.
☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams
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☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display
☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams)
☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms
☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles involving numeracy, literacy and lateral thinking)
☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly
☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts.
☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams
☞ The 7 Rooms each have a specific Puzzle that has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable to KS3 and KS4 Student
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Why not try out one of our other fantastic Escape Rooms
WW2 History Digital Escape Room
The Big History Digital Escape Room
Bletchley Park and the Codebreakers History Digital Escape Room
Norman England Digital Escape Room
Cold War and Russia Digital Escape Room
English Civil War and its Causes Digital Escape Room
Tudor England Digital Escape Room
Big Fun End of Term Digital Escape Room
Citizenship & Politics Digital Escape Room
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Based around the question 'What is Philosophy and Ethics?', this display looks at RE/ Philosophy & Ethics from different viewpoints: politics, maths, history, writing, science etc to show why RE/ Philosophy & Ethics is important today!
Brand New KS3 or GCSE History Normans History Escape Room - End of Year Virtual Escape Room by Cre8tive Resources! Let the students become Codebreakers! This lasts an hour or under depending on how quick the teams can solve each puzzle! Students love this style of lesson, great as an educational treat for your class. C8/ES/17
How can this resource be adapted for social distancing?
Upload / send the sheets digitally so students can work independently through them (don’t use the keys or PPT tracker if so)
Could use as part of a Recovery Curriculum
Set the 7 Puzzles for Homework
Pairs instead of groups
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Product Contents:
☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display
☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams)
☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms
☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles involving numeracy, literacy and lateral thinking)
☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly
☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts.
☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams
☞ The 7 Rooms each have a specific Puzzle that has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable to KS3 and KS4 Student
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Our Philosophy
We aim to help you equip students with the knowledge and skills to take ownership of their own learning. Our Products come ‘Ready-to-Teach’ with everything you need to teach fun and creative lessons. Our products are teacher-designed, classroom tested & student approved.
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Why not try out one of our other fantastic History Escape Rooms
WW2 History Digital Escape Room
The Big History Digital Escape Room
Cold War and Russia Digital Escape Room
English Civil War and its Causes Digital Escape Room
Tudor England Digital Escape Room
Big Fun End of Term Digital Escape Room
Citizenship & Politics Digital Escape Room
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Philosophy Escape Room - Digital Escape Room for Philosophy and ethics Students KS4 or KS5 . Escape Room is fully editable so you can chose to adapt the vocabulary if you want.
Virtual Escape Room Exploring Philosophy by Cre8tive Resources! This lasts an hour or under depending on how quick students can solve each puzzle! Students love this style of lesson, great as an educational treat for your class to start the year and engage them in some fun problem solving. C8/RE/13
Each Escape Puzzle comes with two short Knowledge Recall Questions on the Topic, a Main “Escape Puzzle” and a revision bite-size fact. All designed by our RE Specialist.
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☞ Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display
☞ Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams)
☞ Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms
☞ Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles)
☞ Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly
☞ Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts.
☞ Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams
☞ The 7 Rooms each have a specific Puzzle that has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable for English / Drama Students
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Designed for teachers using the new AQA Philosophy specification (teaching from 2017 onwards).
This revision session covers the ‘Intuition & Deduction Thesis’ section of the specification [Descartes’ Rationalism]. The topic is a part of the Epistemology component of the AS course.
This download contains one of a series of revision sessions that use a variety of mind-mapping, discussion and debate tasks to cover a section of the specification. It includes a fully animated revision session PowerPoint and a set of ‘silent debate’ A3 worksheets. All resources are editable.
The revision sessions can be used in a number of ways:
-As revision sessions during a revision period of term-time leading up to exams
-Sandwiched between lessons as they are taught throughout the year as a way of solidifying and assessing learning
-During extra-curricular time (KS5 Philosophy Clubs)
This revision session features:
-A ‘grid of learning’ post-it task (to focus students on the day’s topic and refresh their memories of the basics)
-A 'competitive mind-mapping task (which can be completed on the whiteboard or on A3 paper)
-A silent debate task (with 6 x A3 silent debate worksheets in an editable .doc file) [nb. allowing group conversation, instead of silence, is also an effective approach]
-Debates that ask students to move from one side of the room or the other and verbalise a defence of their position in response to a statement or rubric.
-A concluding ‘One thing I am still uncertain about…’ post-it question.
This session can be purchased individually or as part of various bundles depending on your needs.
Please note: the cover picture depicts some of the activities that make up this revision session, the wording within those tasks is adapted to the topic specified above and may differ from the wording depicted. Contents and tasks may vary slightly between revision sessions. The cover photo is, however, a fair depiction of the contents of the lesson.
Copyright Adam Godwin (2017) [Godwin86]
This is a unit of 5 lessons for the OCR unit on Philosophy of Religion: Ancient Philosophical Beliefs. Lessons cover a variety of tasks, activities and learner styles, geared towards the final exam. Also included is the A3 and A4 Learning Mats / Revision Mats for this topic.
Lessons are:
Introduction and Background
Plato’s Reality
Aristotle’s Causes
Aristotle’s Prime Mover
Comparing Plato and Aristotle
Learning Mat / Revision Mat also included.
Free Workbook also included
Please give feedback! I am always happy to respond to comments - whether positive or constructive - this will help to improve the quality of my resources in the future and, more importantly, the quality of pupils’ RE/RS education in general - which is what we’re all here for!
This presentation and worksheet will give a broad overview of Philosophy. It discusses where and when Philosophy began, although it mostly focuses on what exactly is philosophy.
There are questions throughout the presentation that can be used for normal lower order questioning during class, or as a written activity. The presentation contains lots of interesting pictures and bright colours to engage the students.
It is suitable for KS3 and KS4. It can be used in both a denominational and non-denominational classroom.
The worksheet is differentiated and the pupils can either complete it during the presentation or afterwards.
2 x Completely Different Digital Escape Rooms for students studying WW2, Nazi Germany and the interwar time period.
1 x Escape the Locked Room (General WW2 History and bits of WW1 )
1 x Escape the Haunted School Building (Specific to Nazi Germany and the Rise of Adolf Hitler and consolidation of Power)
Bonus Free Resource - WW1 Remembrance Quiz
Each Escape Room Includes…
Escape Room Interactive Tracker PowerPoint - Keeps the competitive nature on display
Escape Room Puzzle Keys (Six Sets for Six Teams)
Escape Room Team sheet - Record codes, answers clues as they progress through the 7 rooms
Escape Room Puzzles (7 Rooms = 7 Different styles of Puzzles involving numeracy, literacy and lateral thinking)
Teacher Answer Sheet - Quickly confirm to teams they have solved the puzzle correctly
Teacher instructions of how to set up the escape room and what to print and top tips and shortcuts.
Successful Escape Certificates for those that complete the entire challenge (There is a difficult bonus escape too :) for any quick teams
The 7 Rooms for the First Escape Room include: Secret Bunker, Space Station, Garden Tunnel, The Office, Dungeon, The Island, Skate Park (Each Puzzle has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable to KS3 and KS4 Student or even bright KS2 students.
The 7 Rooms for the Second Escape Room include: Playground, Hallway F, English Classroom, Never Ending Basement, Heads Office, The Library and Finally the Secret Laboratory (Each Puzzle has been adapted to suit the topic of this Escape Room and is suitable to KS3 and KS4 Student.
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We aim to help you equip students with the knowledge and skills to take. Our products come ‘Ready-to-Teach’ with everything you need to teach fun and creative lessons. Our products are teacher-designed, classroom tested & student approved.
This lesson one of a History of Philosophy scheme of work, which takes students from Thales and the origins of philosophy, right up to the 21st Century. Each lesson is based around an inquiry question, which links to the work of a key philosopher.
Each lesson is a contained in single resource which includes:
Vocabulary recap “settle down” starter
Discussion based starter linking to the inquiry question for the lesson
Glossary of key terms introduced in the lesson
A key reading which supports the inquiry question
Knowledge check questions to clarify student understanding of the reading
Discussion and extended writing tasks
A teacher page, giving suggested answers and discussion points for each of the tasks